[indiana-discuss] Code review request

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Thu Jan 31 21:09:06 PST 2008


David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> > 3. AFAIK the "\\w" can be replaced with "\$PWD" (or "\${PWD}") - making
> > this more portable (e.g. it should work with bash and ksh93)
> 
> One reason to use "\\w" is that it will print tilde (~) for the home
> directory or subdirectories under that.  ${PWD} will expand to the full
> path which is both a lot more verbose and seems different from that
> other vendors do.

Mhhh.... right. Try "${PWD/${HOME}/\~}" then...

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Bye,
Roland

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